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to become one of the most important con-
cerns of its kind in this section of the
United States. In December, 1912, the
Trumbull brothers, finding it necessary to
expand their plant under the increasing
demand for their products, removed from
Bantam the major part of their establishment
to Bridgeport, where the company
engaged in a more extensive manufacture
of its ow^n inventions, which consist prin-
cipally of switches, sockets, etc., in addi-
tion to other devices. Under the skilfully
guiding hand of Alexander H. Trumbull,
the business has made remarkable strides.
Upon the organization of the company
Mr. Trumbull was elected president, and
still occupies that office. He himself is
the inventor of a number of wiring de-
vices in the electrical line which are in
use throughout the country. The envi-
able reputation which has come to the
Connecticut Electric Manufacturing Company
is due in very large part to the introduction
and manufacture of numerous
important inventions in the electrical field
which were perfected and brought out by
Mr. Trumbull and his late brother, Isaac
B. Trumbull.
Mr. Trumbull is a member of the
Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce, and
State Chamber of Commerce, also of the
Manufacturers' Associations, both local
and national ; the Association of Manu-
facturers of Electrical Supplies. He is
affiliated with American Lodge, Free and
Accepted Masons, of Stratford, and is a
vestryman and a member of the board of
finance of Christ Protestant Episcopal
Church of Stratford, Connecticut. His
clubs are the Algonquin of Bridgeport,
the Cupheag of Stratford, and the Strat-
ford Mill River Country Club, being also
a member of the board of governors of the
latter club.
Mr. Trumbull married, December 6,
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1905, Mary J. Smith, a daughter of Andrew
and Jane (Kilbourne) Smith of
Litchfield, both of whom were members
of old Connecticut families. Mr. and Mrs.
Trumbull are the parents of two children
Marian, born November 27, 1906, a graduate
of the Stratford High School, and
now (1925) a student at the Wykham-
Rise School for Girls at Washington,
Connecticut, and Donald Trumball, born
June 18, 1910, who is attending the Gunnery
School at Washington, Connecticut.
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CURRY, James A.,
Iiaxryer.
Prominent among the enterprising, en-
ergetic, and successful lawyers of Hart-
ford, Connecticut, is James A. Curry, of
the law firm of Curry & Curry. Mr. Curry
was born in that city, January 24, 1890,
son of Thomas and Ann (Flannigan)
Curry. The former was born in Ballycumber,
Queen's County, Ireland, and
died in November, 1915, aged sixty-four
years. He was about seventeen years of
age when he came to America with hi?
brother, Peter, and located in Hartford.
There Mr. Curry learned the trade of
brass moulder at the Colt Patent Firearms
Company, where he remained for
almost twenty years. He became exceed-
ingly expert in combining metals to give
special qualities for special uses. Though
never trained in the modern technical
sense, he was naturally possessed of keen
observation and an analytical mind, and
these qualities gave him such a command
of his business that requests came to him
from all over the country to work out
metal formulae. He was the one to first
make a metal to be successfully used in
the manufacture of link chains. Mr.
Curry worked out the formula for the
metal for the first gatling gun manufac-
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